[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] remove MSVC-specific

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 09:09:11PM +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:
> 
> > On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 09:31:03PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >> On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 09:09:47PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> >> > On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 09:03:00PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >> > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:57:03PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >> > > > Here is a patch to remove an MSVC-specific definition from
> >> > > > libavutil/mem.h.  MSVC is not supported and now we have a proper
> >> > > > fallback.  Besides, it seems that the identifier is wrong anyway
> >> > > > and the condition is never true.  This proves that if there should be
> >> > > > any sort of MSVC support, it should be maintained outside of FFmpeg
> >> > > > where it might actually get some testing.
> >> > > 
> >> > > No one seemed to be against this patch, so here is an updated version.
> >> > 
> >> > patch rejected :)
> >> 
> >> :)
> >> 
> >> Seriously, we do not provide MSVC infrastructure in other places, why in
> >> this one?
> >
> > Why not? :))
> >
> > Seriously, its one hunk less to maintain for people who have hacked their
> > ffmpeg to be msvc compileable. And it does no harm to us.
> 
> It adds to the maintenance burden for everybody, and it is a piece of

What kind of maintaince can these 2 lines need?
Its like saying the a fourcc in the table of fourccs for a codec we dont
support adds a maintenance burden for everybody ...


> code that will never receive any testing whatsoever.  Both of these
> are bad.
> 
> > Maybe we can one day even support MSVC fully, it just needs MSVC to
> > support standard C or someone to come up with a clean workaround. Like
> > a little perl script to convert the problematic syntax before feeding it
> > to the compiler.
> 
> You've obviously never had the misfortune of being required to use
> msvc for anything.  Or my sarcasm detector is in dire need of
> maintenance.

No, i was lucky and just had some volunteerly contact with MSVC which ended
after a week or 2 of twice daily hard resets. That was maybe 10 years or
so ago IIRC

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